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How to Find Your Element: What Ken Robinson Changed for Me

October 22, 2026

Print this post How to Find Your Element: What Ken Robinson Changed for Me How to find your Element sounds like one of those enormous life questions that should end with a dramatic answer. I did not finish Ken Robinson’s book with a neat label for myself or each of…

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The Power Book: How Rhonda Byrne Helps Me Choose Better Feelings

October 22, 2026

Print this post The Power Book: How Rhonda Byrne Helps Me Choose Better Feelings The Power book by Rhonda Byrne felt like the conversation that The Secret had not finished with me. The Secret had helped me notice the thoughts I kept rehearsing and the emotional…

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What an Anti-Aging Doctor Taught Me About Growing Old (and Why I Was Thinking About It All Wrong)

October 10, 2026

Print this post What an Anti-Aging Doctor Taught Me About Growing Old (and Why I Was Thinking About It All Wrong) I have to admit something about the word anti-aging. Before listening to Guénolé Addor, my first instinct was to sidestep it. It sounds like it belongs in…

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Perimenopause and SIBO: What Nearly Six Months Changed

October 5, 2026

Print this post Perimenopause and SIBO: What Nearly Six Months Changed Perimenopause and SIBO became connected in my own life when I read a book written by a doctor I was about to meet. It is a rather strange experience. You arrive at the appointment already knowing…

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Exhausted Doing Everything Right? What Robin Malmasson Made Me Question

October 2, 2026

Print this post Exhausted Doing Everything Right? What Robin Malmasson Made Me Question The title of this Limitless Project episode almost made me laugh, but not in a light way: “Pourquoi tu es épuisé alors que tu fais tout bien.” Why are you exhausted when you are…

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ADHD Parenting Support: What Barkley Helped Me See Differently

September 28, 2026

Print this post ADHD Parenting Support: What Barkley Helped Me See Differently When I asked myself how I would use Russell Barkley’s 12 Principles for Raising a Child with ADHD, my answer was not theoretical. I wrote that I wanted to better understand and parent my…

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Small Moments of Awe: Finding Meaning in Everyday Life

September 26, 2026

Print this post Small Moments of Awe: Finding Meaning in Everyday Life I already write down things I am grateful for. Ten of them, because three did not feel like enough for me. Pen on paper, something specific to notice and a little space before the day starts making…

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How to Motivate Learners: What Creative Schools Changed for Me

September 21, 2026

Print this post How to Motivate Learners: What Creative Schools Changed for Me When I asked myself how I could use Creative Schools, my answer was simple: to change my approach to teaching and motivate learners more. I wanted something that could influence what I…

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Ulrich Génisson Keto: What Strict Keto Finally Made Me Understand

September 19, 2026

Print this post Ulrich Génisson Keto: What Strict Keto Finally Made Me Understand Ulrich Génisson keto advice landed differently for me because it did not sound like another vague wellness compromise. In this Limitless Project episode, he makes a distinction that feels…

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The Biology of Belief: What If Your Body Is Listening to Your Life?

September 10, 2026

Print this post I have always found it strange when a book lands at exactly the right moment, then another completely different book seems to whisper the same thing from another doorway. Not in a neat, prove-it-on-a-spreadsheet way. More in that funny life way where…